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mirth

07/13/2012 04:05PM

Or anybody else...

We had tagged this plant as posion ivy on our recent trip in Michigan, but after finding this one with what looked to be a flower stem I'm not so sure. Notice the cluster coming up from behind the front & center leaves...

Either way, we told the boys to keep away from ones looking like this, just in case.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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cinna

07/13/2012 04:24PM

Jack in the pulpit

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thebotanyguy

07/13/2012 04:38PM

I agree with the ID that cinna posted above. It is Jack-in-the-Pulpit with developing green fruits, and will eventually ripen as red berries.

Here is a link to some photos and information that I have posted at another site:

Jack-in-the-pulpit

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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mirth

07/13/2012 04:44PM

Thanks a bunch! Cross referenced from images on Google & you're exactly right! =)

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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Savage Voyageur

07/13/2012 06:34PM

I have many of these plants growing in my backyard woods. Every year the same one sprouts in the middle of my lawn. I try to mow around it but somehow it gets chopped off every year. They are cool plants.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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